The ComRes poll found a majority of people believe George Osborne, the Chancellor, needs to change his failing economic policies.

Accorsing to the poll, published on Tuesday, nearly three quarters of of people agree the time has come for the changes just over two years after the coalition took office.

In the poll for The Independent, nearly one in five voters disagreed the Government should change tack while just 11 per cent said they did not know.

Just over two in three of Conservative voters (64 per cent) and 68 per cent of Liberal Democrat voters at the last election recommend a U-turn. The figure rises to 86 per cent of 2010 Labour voters.

On its regular state of the parties poll, ComRes found the Labour lead down slightly on last month to eight points, with Labour on 42 per cent (down one), Conservatives on 34 per cent (up one), the Liberal Democrats on 11 per cent (no change) and others on 13 per cent (no change).

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, said Britain had done well with its programme to cut its budget deficit so far but "unfortunately economic recovery has not taken hold".

The global financial watchdog concluded that measures to boost economic growth by raising spending on infrastructure have only been "modest" so far.

In its report on the health of the UK economy, the IMF said the Bank of England could consider cutting interest rates even further, helping small businesses get loans and doing more "monetary easing" - effectively money printing.

It said more could be done to reduce pay for public sector workers, reform property tax and increase spending on infrastructure.

However, if the UK remains in recession or the situation worsens because of the euro crisis, the IMF even said there was a case to "reconsider" how quickly the UK is reducing the deficit, which has led to deep public spending cuts.